Hackney Green Party calls for rent arrears to be wiped clean amid coronavirus crisis

Hackney activists are calling for snowballing rent arrears to be cleared in light of the coronavirus crisis.

The Hackney Green Party has written a letter to Hackney mayor Philip Glanville, Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott and Hackney South and Shoreditch MP Meg Hillier asking for any rent debt built up by tenants during the pandemic to be cancelled.

It calculated the average private renter on furlough will accrue £952 in rent arrears over four months.

Zoë Garbett, Hackney Green Party organiser, said people are in danger of being forced into homelessness.

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